Hendren v. Crescent City Seltzer & Mineral Water Co.

This is a suit for damages arising from a collision of defendant’s truck with plaintiff’s automobile. The amount sued for represents costs of material and labor, paid by plaintiff for repairs made necessary by the accident. There was judgment for this amount and defendant has appealed.

The petition, to which is annexed the itemized and receipted bill for repairs, charges negligence against defendant in that defendant’s truck was being driven recklessly and at a high rate of speed, in a southernly direction, on the wrong side of North Peters Street, between St. Ann and Dumaine Streets, all in…